How to check the character encoding of a string in bash - the reason I had to use this was because I encountered a weird bug where two different strings that looked the exact same were being treated completely differently by the shell - I had copied and pasted them from two different web pages that used different character encodings, it was so weird that I made some quicktime screen recordings of me figuring it out - what are the chances of that happening today? pretty close to zero - now do you believe in the unseen?stackoverflow.com #